Queen’s Herald March 2024

Highlights: August 14 TRS Picnic at John’s Home. September 4, 11 & 18: Western Washington Fair rose shows in Puyallup. 2022 TRS ROSE SHOW trophy results.

The June TRS Meeting will be “all about the rose show”: prepping your entries, watering, entry tags, class rules, staging, table locations, judging, & more.

Our February program by John will focus on Spring pruning methods & tools. We will follow-up with the hands-on project in Pt Defiance on March 2 at 8.45 am.

Our annual TRS Banquet is Saturday, Jan 18. We will have the installation of 2025 leadership and a great program about soils given by Dr. Gary Ritchie PhD.

We’ll start our 9/18 meeting at 7PM with a Clinic by Bruce about what to do in your rose garden in early Fall.

A real treat this month: “Old garden roses you can grow in Tacoma area gardens” with Margaret Nelson, past president of the Heritage Roses NW Rose Society.